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Enrique Lopez, Latino Leader, Is Dead at 65
Enrique (Hank) Lopez, an attorney, writer and teacher who devoted his life and legal skills to Latino causes, died last Sunday of a heart attack.
He was 65 and died at his West Hollywood home, said Lila Lee Silvern, a longtime friend.
Lopez had just been released from the hospital and was preparing to fly to Chicago for a meeting of the American Bar Assn.’s Committee on World Order, to which he had been appointed last month.
Believed the first Chicano graduate of Harvard Law School, Lopez was born in Chihuahua, Mexico. His father was an illiterate soldier in Pancho Villa’s army who moved his family to Denver when Enrique was a toddler.
Silvern graduated with honors from the University of Denver and did graduate work at the University of Mexico before entering Harvard on a scholarship.
He had been told in high school, Silvern recalled, that “Harvard was an impossibility for a Mexican boy. Even middle-class white children couldn’t go there.”
After graduation in 1948, he was encouraged by his teachers to come to Los Angeles where a burgeoning Latin community needed his talents and his penchant for activism.
He went to work here that same year with the state Labor Relations Board and then entered private practice. But soon, and f
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Enrique (Hank) Lopez; Attorney, Activist
Enrique (Hank) Lopez, an attorney, writer and teacher who devoted his life and legal skills to Latino causes, died Sunday of a heart attack.
He was 65 and died at his West Hollywood home, said Lila Lee Silvern, a longtime friend.
Lopez had just been released from the hospital and was preparing to fly to Chicago for a meeting of the American Bar Assn.’s Committee on World Order, to which he had been appointed last month.
Believed the first Chicano graduate of Harvard Law School, Lopez was born in Chihuahua, Mexico. His father was an illiterate soldier in Pancho Villa’s army who moved his family to Denver when Enrique was a toddler.
Dismayed at School
Silvern said Lopez had told her that he ran home after his first day in an American school to cry out to his mother that “they cut my tongue out.”
Silvern said Lopez, who then spoke no English, began memorizing the dictionary to augment the language instruction he was receiving.
He graduated with honors from the University of Denver and did graduate work at the University of Mexico before entering Harvard on a scholarship.
He had been told in high school, Silvern recalled, that “Harvard was an impossibility for a Mexican boy. Even middle-class white children couldn’t go there.”
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